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Synopsis A scorching hot global thriller with more suspicion than Homeland and more twists and turns than Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . Red Sparro...

Synopsis Tracing its origins back to the great Somerled, Raymond Campbell Paterson charts the steady ascent of Clan Donald to the zenith of its pow...

Synopsis In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Bei...

Synopsis Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social...

Synopsis A special edition of le Carré's first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston...

Synopsis Subtitled : Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon. Running to the limits of human endurance. For those who are not content to run mer...

Synopsis Border Trilogy #1. John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the...

Synopsis The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Hugh Glass isn't afraid to die. He's done it once alr...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize. In 49 B.C . . . the seven hundred and fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar cross...

Synopsis Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age of seven Morley has ...

Synopsis A breakneck race against time . . . and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying charac...

Synopsis Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It ...

Synopsis A busker is a wee guy (or woman) who plays on the streets for tips. In bands, to busk, means to bluff your way through a song that you hav...

Synopsis This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially com...

Synopsis In Naomi Alderman’s The Power, the balance of the world is irrevocably altered overnight - women now dominate. The novel weaves four centr...

Synopsis It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straightforward, this is...

Synopsis First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literat...

Synopsis Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door wit...

Synopsis Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen delivers a thoroughly menacing thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of...

Synopsis Tailored to meet the needs of the first time bonsai owner, this book is an extensive directory of every major bonsai type. Bonsai Basics e...

Synopsis On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950's underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his h...

Synopsis Winner of The Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction. Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction. A Short History of Tractors in Uk...

Synopsis Athlete, activist, rebel, poet, legend - Muhammad Ali stood larger than life in the imagination of hundreds of millions of people around t...

Synopsis Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks E...